Current Events
October 5th 2016: In a New York Times magazine article Michael Pollan address that a handful of Americans including himself wonder why President Obama never tried to take on the agriculture corporation though or mention them though most of what he has talked about in office, such as, school food systems, climate change, and energy independence ; which failed at being address completely without address agriculture corporations.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/10/09/magazine/obama-administration-big-food-policy.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FFactory%20Farming&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=3&pgtype=collection&_r=0
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October 14th 2016: Small scale agriculture threatens the rain forest; small farmers effect on the rain forest of southern Asia. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/10/161014092120.htm
December 1st 2016: A sad record in 2016: the Amazon rainforest has suffered the largest reported forest loss since 2008. Environmentalists are very concerned about impacts on biodiversity and climate protection. www.dw.com/en/amazon-deforestation-ticks-tragically-up/a-36597538
October 17th 2016: Arnold Schwarzengger has urged the public to give up meat and take up a planet based diet for the benefit of humanity. sagemtn.org/tag/animal-agriculture/
September 21th 2016: Is your favorite resturaunt serving you too many anitbiotics? “Antibiotic resistant infections already cause more than 23,000 deaths and up to $55 billion in costs each year and antibiotic misuse in animal agriculture threatens to drive these numbers even higher,” said Steven Roach, Food Safety Program Director of Food Animal Concerns Trust. “Even the CDC agrees that with the recent discovery of the latest colistin-resistant superbug, the end of the road for antibiotics is not far.”"More than 70 percent of medically-important antibiotics in the United States are sold for use on livestock and poultry, the report’s authors said. Additionally, more than 96 percent of those drugs are routinely distributed in feed or water, often to animals that are not sick, to speed up growth and help animals survive crowded and unsanitary conditions on industrial farms."
www.fox25boston.com/news/is-your-favorite-restaurant-serving-you-too-many-antibiotics/448402954
www.fox25boston.com/news/is-your-favorite-restaurant-serving-you-too-many-antibiotics/448402954